Data Sharing is an extremely powerful, yet easy-to-use feature. You can get started as a data provider in just a few simple steps.

This topic introduces the tasks required to share a database and its objects with one or more accounts. The example at the end of the topic illustrates all the SQL commands required to perform these
tasks.

To perform the tasks described in this topic, you must use the ACCOUNTADMIN role.

Also, this topic describes only the minimum set of tasks required for providers to start sharing data. For more detailed information, including more detailed data sharing scenarios,
see Working with Shares.

We recommend performing this minimal amount of validation of the share before completing the next step because, once the next step is completed, the share is “visible” to all the accounts that
are added to the share.